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"So long as democracy exists... totalitarianism is in deadly danger."
First published 19 February 1941
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"Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered."
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"By retaining one’s childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and [...] toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a…
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"History is written by the winners."
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"The one thing that never arrives is equality."
Review of The Freedom of the Streets by Jack Common
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"There was a certain fitness in this, since her own husband had been vaporized a couple of years earlier."
First published on this day in 1949
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"The average person never buys a new book, except perhaps a Penguin."
First published in Tribune, 2 June 1944
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First published spring 1946
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"To blame somebody like Northcliffe for making money in the quickest way is like blaming a skunk for stinking."
First published in Tribune, 21 April 1944
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"It is not fair to the public to treat all-important subjects in this slapdash way."
First published in Tribune, 14 April 1944
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"To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilisation."
First published in The Observer, 9 April 1945
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